[thackney]

The Big Five oil companies control gross revenues far greater than most COUNTRIES on this planet.

Who do you consider the the "Big Five"?

[IronJack]

Who do you consider the the "Big Five"?

1. Exxon Mobil
2. Royal Dutch Shell
3. BP
4. Chevron
5. Conoco Phillips

[IronJack]

If Exxon Mobil were a country, its 2007 profit would exceed the gross domestic product of nearly two thirds of the 183 nations in the World Bank's economic rankings. That is 2007, before $150-a-barrel crude. And that is Exxon Mobil alone. Add in the others and you've got an economic superpower, a nation without borders, without a government, and with no ethic driving it except greater and greater profit.

Now start factoring in the crude owned and controlled by foreign (and hostile) governments, and it is clear that the oil industry represents an enemy that can very likely accomplish what no other enemy ever did: defeat us.